What on earth is happening to Team France? At time of writing, it's not even in the top 10...looks like it's going to fulfill its awful prophecy of slipping down the medal tally every Olympiad. (5th in Atlanta, 6th in Sydney, 7th in Athens and now, ? in Beijing).

Has anyone also noticed that Greece (the previous host) is performing way, way below expectations? At time of writing, it is ranked 46th with 1 Silver and 2 Bronze medals...that's a far cry from its results in Athens 2004! So has Hellas lost its momentum?